Do favoritism exists in the family...

Well, my mother really doesn't have favoritism. I never remembered anything about that.

My mum has always favoured my older sister. I think she overcompensated for her childhood where her younger sister was the favourite. She'd always buy my sister the better toys and when I'd complain she'd tell me it was because the older child always got first choice and the better stuff. She'd have endless patience with my sister, acting as though she could do nothing wrong. I'd only have to look the wrong way to get hit. It still makes me angry.

I think it does. My older brother and my younger step brother are both favoured (so I feel) by my mom and her boyfriend. When my older brother turned 18, he was given either all or atleast half of the money for his drivers ed so he could get his G2. And my younger step- brother who just turned 10 got 300 dollars for his birthday. I turned 18 in March and got a 5 dollar cake and 60 dollars from my mom and 80 from her boyfriend. I found it kinda sad when my own boyfriend did more for me than my mom did for my birthday. I don't think most parents do it knowingly. I'm pretty much the middle child now in my house (older brother, me, step brother.) I have an older sister too but she's on her own and married. So sometimes I feel like they favour those two over me, but I don't really make a big deal about it. Because my dad favoured me over everyone else until my parents split up. It's almost like they're getting even with me now. lol

We are three in the family. Two boys and a girl. While we were growing up, I saw how dad really cared for my elder sister and how mom favored my elder brother. Since I am the youngest, at times, I would feel that it was unfair. I saw other children of my age and are the youngest of the brood and I saw how they were favored by their parents over their brothers and sisters. Well, I accepted it and dealt with it. Now that I am older, I realized that even if I grew up thinking that my parents loved my brother and sister more than they love me, it did not really affect my love for my parents nor my siblings.

Although parents do not explicitly state that they have favorites among their children, there will always be favoritism existing between families. Like in my case, my parents do not favor anyone of us in particular, they go to the one who is right on a fight, but there are time when they give more attention the the younger one rather than to my, who is the oldest among the three of us.

i don't think that there is favoritism in my family because my parents always say that they love my sister and I equally. but i think there are times when we feel that there is. it's normal.

i am very fortunate that my parents do not favour any of their children... they treat me the same as my two brothers even though i am the only daughter in the family... i used to think that my mum favours my brothers and my father favours me more... but as i grow up, i find out that it is not true... my parents love the three of us equally...

My family definately played favorites. When my brother was alive, he was the favorite.

Absolutely it does. My mother (who I also love) favored my brother and was pretty obvious about it. She preferred him to my dad and myself. I really have a hard time when I see this going on in families. It bothers me cause I remember crying many times over it. I never could quite measure up to my brother.

I understand some parents who have their own favorite in their family. However, to maintain peace among them, they should show to their other children that they favor one sibling. Anyway, I am the only child in our family. So, I get all the attention.

the younger needs more guidance.

In my personally opinion, the family favoritism do exist. In my family, it's ok. Even sometimes my younger sister and I feel that dad favor the one in the middle, but it's not that serious. However, in my classmates family, her mother favor a lot more of her elder brother than her. I think this is somehow quite general in China where people favor more of boys than girls.

i guess it really exist in our family. i've seen it so many times and the one that i'm talking about was my brother. she really do anything for him that's why he became a very spoiled brat and i hate it because the result of it was my brother treats me and my younger brother like an animals if he doesn't need anything from us

hi yes it does happen in family's as i have a elder sister and she has been married twice and has three children by different people but my mum favours her more than she does me . i have three children and been married only the once and i'm still married to the same person who i dearly love as for example my mum had a excersice bike and said that neither of us could borrow it but when i went round the next time to my mums i said to her where was the bike and she said that my elder sister had got it even tho she said that neither of us could have or borrow it so i say yes favoritism does exsist and it does exsit with my mums granchildren aswell

Sometimes i think it is how a person takes things, when I was little for some reason my mother wouldn't let me go stay with rallies where they would let my sister go stay with an Aunt and uncle every year at the beach...now i used to think they favored her because they let her go on a holiday where i didn't find out until we were all grown up that my sister used to think they were palming her off and favored me because they kept me with them..so i guess it is how you look at things...